DRAP, FIA launch country-wide crackdown against fake, unregistered medicine
The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) have fastened their… Read More
2 years ago
Medicine
Punjab health dept denies medicine shortage, production halt news
Lahore: The Health Department Punjab has denied news about shortage of life-saving medicine in the… Read More
2 years ago
Punjab faces life-saving drugs’ shortage as pharmaceuticals halt production
Lahore: Punjab is facing shortage of at least 40 life-saving drugs including fever medicine, while… Read More
2 years ago
The Chinese dad making medicine to treat his dying son
Two-year-old Haoyang has likely just months to live -- but the only medicine that can… Read More
3 years ago
Ghotki officials detain ‘medicine thieves’ inside health department
According to health department records, the recovered medicine belonged to Ghotki's Tehsil hospital and the… Read More
4 years ago
Colchicine to be tested as COVID-19 treatment in UK trial
Anti-inflammatory colchicine will be tested as a possible COVID-19 treatment in one of the world’s… Read More
4 years ago
Indian pharmacist dies after consuming his own ‘COVID-19 cure’
The herbal products company owner and pharmacist consumed the COVID-19 cure prepared by the latter… Read More
4 years ago
As virus bites, ASEAN leaders make vow on food and medicine supply
Southeast Asian leaders pledged to keep trade routes open to protect food supplies and stockpile… Read More
5 years ago
Trump administration moves forward rule to import medicines
The Trump administration on Wednesday said it is proposing a rule to allow states to… Read More
5 years ago
Major political events depress young doctors’ moods
Major political events, such as the 2016 presidential election and inauguration, were linked with declines… Read More
5 years ago
Doctors who deciphered body’s response to oxygen win Nobel Medicine Prize
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded jointly to William G. Kaelin… Read More
5 years ago
White House kills rebate rule aimed at lowering drug prices
The Trump administration has withdrawn a rule that it had said would lower drug prices… Read More
5 years ago
DRAP to launch crackdown against illegal advertising of medicines
The DRAP had issued a letter to all its departments in provinces and the capital… Read More
5 years ago
Pharmaceutical to pay $7 million to settle price-fixing allegations
Pharmaceutical has agreed to pay more than $7 million to settle allegations that it fixed… Read More
5 years ago
DRAP seizes stocks of 226 medicines on overpricing
Action was taken against firms in Lahore, Peshawar and Karachi Read More
6 years ago
Environment damage behind 1 in 4 global deaths, disease: UN
As greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise amid a preponderance of droughts, floods and superstorms… Read More
6 years ago
AI system spots childhood disease like a doctor
An artificial intelligence (AI) programme developed in China diagnosed childhood diseases as accurately as doctors Read More
6 years ago
For Nora, Brexit ‘could be a matter of life and death’
With just 56 days until Britain leaves the EU, Jo Elgarf has begun stockpiling food… Read More
6 years ago
Buzdar suspends doctor for asking patient’s father to get medicine from outside
SHEIKHUPURA: Upon complaint of father of an injured child, Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar on… Read More
6 years ago
Over half of medical prescriptions in Peshawar are illegible
PESHAWAR: Studies has revealed that 58.5 percent of medical prescriptions by doctors in Peshawar are… Read More
7 years ago